New York · Private foundation
The Hesed Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $138k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 25
- Grants FY2025
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 100%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,800
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 6
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $37k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 100% of the organizations The Hesed Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 23 | $137k | 87% |
| FY2024 | 6 | $80k | 100% |
| FY2018 | 2 | $896 | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Awakened Heart Project | $100,000 | 2 | 69% |
| Just Vision Inc | $32,500 | 2 | 1% |
| Social Security Works Education Fund | $17,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Beloved Builders Inc | $17,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Multitude Films Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Women Make Movies Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Lander-Grinspoon Academy Solomon Schechter Day School | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Shalom Center | $5,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Democracy Now Productions Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Kadima | $3,600 | 1 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Awakened Heart Project | $100,000 | 2 | 69% |
| Just Vision Inc | $32,500 | 2 | 1% |
| Social Security Works Education Fund | $17,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Beloved Builders Inc | $17,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Multitude Films Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Women Make Movies Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Lander-Grinspoon Academy Solomon Schechter Day School | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Shalom Center | $5,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Democracy Now Productions Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Kadima | $3,600 | 1 | n/a |
| Tikkun Olam Chavurah | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Fractured Atlas Inc | $1,800 | 1 | n/a |
| Yerusha | $1,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Woodstock Land Conservancy Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Woodstock School of Art Inc | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| Amnesty International of the USA Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Feeding America | $400 | 1 | 0% |
| Plan International USA Inc | $396 | 1 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $200 | 1 | n/a |
| Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Inc | $100 | 1 | 0% |
| Feed the Children Inc | $100 | 1 | 0% |
| United States Association for UNHCR | $100 | 1 | 0% |
| Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation | $50 | 1 | 0% |
| Regional Food Bank of Northeastern New York Inc | $50 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($8k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Hesed Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 16 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About The Hesed Fund
- How much does The Hesed Fund give?
- The Hesed Fund reported 25 grants totaling $138,350 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 6 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Hesed Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (52%), International (16%), Public Benefit (11%).
- Who are The Hesed Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Awakened Heart Project ($100k), Just Vision Inc ($33k), Social Security Works Education Fund ($18k).
- Does The Hesed Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Hesed Fund accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Hesed Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc, National Philanthropic Trust.
- Where is The Hesed Fund based?
- The Hesed Fund is based in NY.
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